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Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Maps; Chapter 1: Bordering on Danger: An Introduction ; An Ocean of Risk; Bordering on Danger; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Revisiting Southeast Asian History with Geology: Some Demographic Consequences of a Dangerous Environment ; Southeast Asia Takes Shape in a Quiet Century; Volcanic Disruptions to Population; Estimating Longer-Term Effects; Tsunamis of Early Modern Sumatra and Java; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
Chapter 3: 'The Sea Becomes Mulberry Fields and Mulberry Fields Become the Sea': Dikes in the Eastern Red River Delta, c.200 BCE to the Twenty-First Century CEThe Earlier Dikes in the Eastern Delta; Hypothesis: The Shifting Red River and the Erosion of the Eastern Coast; The Disappearing Coast: The Case of Hai Hau; Outmigration from the Eastern Delta; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: 'The Most Horrible of Evils': Social Responses to Drought and Famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857; Introduction; A Note on the Political Economy of the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857
Droughts in Western India, 1782-1857'Paternalistic' Governance and Warfare: 1790-92 and 1803; Famine and the Market: 1812 and 1824; Riot and Ryots: 1832-33; Charity and Water Shortage: 1838 and Beyond; Social Responses to Climatic Variability in Western India; Social Vulnerability to Climatic Variability; Adaptation Measures; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Philippine Typhoons Since the Seventeenth Century ; Typhoons: Introduction; Definition of a Typhoon; Where They Come From; Seasonal Patterns; Monthly Distribution; Wind Systems and Wind Speeds; El Niño and La Niña
Impact on AgricultureCulture of Response/Culture of Mitigation; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Bushfire in Madagascar: Natural Hazard, Useful Tool, and Change Agent ; Introduction; Biospheric Fire Before the First Humans; Foraging Fires (ca.4000 Years Ago to Recent); Agricultural Fires (ca.1500 Years Ago to Present); Pastoral Fires (ca.1100 Years Ago to Present); Fire Suppression for a 'Modern' Economy (ca.1900 to Present); Fire Suppression for Nature Conservation (1920s to Present); Towards a Compromise: 1940s to 1960s; Resurgent Fire Exclusion for Nature Conservation, 1969 to Present
ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Emperor Tự Đức's 'Bad Weather': Interpreting Natural Disasters in Vietnam, 1847-1883; Introduction; Disasters Under the Reign of Tự Đức; 'The Miseries of the People During the Reign of Tự Đức': The Historiography of Disaster Relief; Biblical Interpretations of Disasters in Missionary Letters; 'Gazing up at Clouds': Tự Đức's Response to Disasters; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Storm over San Isidro: Repeated 'disasters' and Civic Community Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines ; Repeated 'disasters'; Storm over San Isidro
Chapter 3: 'The Sea Becomes Mulberry Fields and Mulberry Fields Become the Sea': Dikes in the Eastern Red River Delta, c.200 BCE to the Twenty-First Century CEThe Earlier Dikes in the Eastern Delta; Hypothesis: The Shifting Red River and the Erosion of the Eastern Coast; The Disappearing Coast: The Case of Hai Hau; Outmigration from the Eastern Delta; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: 'The Most Horrible of Evils': Social Responses to Drought and Famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857; Introduction; A Note on the Political Economy of the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857
Droughts in Western India, 1782-1857'Paternalistic' Governance and Warfare: 1790-92 and 1803; Famine and the Market: 1812 and 1824; Riot and Ryots: 1832-33; Charity and Water Shortage: 1838 and Beyond; Social Responses to Climatic Variability in Western India; Social Vulnerability to Climatic Variability; Adaptation Measures; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Philippine Typhoons Since the Seventeenth Century ; Typhoons: Introduction; Definition of a Typhoon; Where They Come From; Seasonal Patterns; Monthly Distribution; Wind Systems and Wind Speeds; El Niño and La Niña
Impact on AgricultureCulture of Response/Culture of Mitigation; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Bushfire in Madagascar: Natural Hazard, Useful Tool, and Change Agent ; Introduction; Biospheric Fire Before the First Humans; Foraging Fires (ca.4000 Years Ago to Recent); Agricultural Fires (ca.1500 Years Ago to Present); Pastoral Fires (ca.1100 Years Ago to Present); Fire Suppression for a 'Modern' Economy (ca.1900 to Present); Fire Suppression for Nature Conservation (1920s to Present); Towards a Compromise: 1940s to 1960s; Resurgent Fire Exclusion for Nature Conservation, 1969 to Present
ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Emperor Tự Đức's 'Bad Weather': Interpreting Natural Disasters in Vietnam, 1847-1883; Introduction; Disasters Under the Reign of Tự Đức; 'The Miseries of the People During the Reign of Tự Đức': The Historiography of Disaster Relief; Biblical Interpretations of Disasters in Missionary Letters; 'Gazing up at Clouds': Tự Đức's Response to Disasters; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Storm over San Isidro: Repeated 'disasters' and Civic Community Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines ; Repeated 'disasters'; Storm over San Isidro